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Joan is a little girl from the Bronx, out of work. Her sister goes to see Frank Rocci, the poultry racketeer with an income of a half million a year, and asks him for old time's sake in the ash cans to get Joan a job in a chorus. Frank is regular, procures a position for the dear 'girl in Texas Kaley's night club and forgets her until he sees her in action: she is too wonderful so the hard boiled gangster loses his grim equanimity and his heart in a gentlemanly fashion. Before niches have found their...
...parade, he had failed to receive such cheers as rang in his ears when he was President of the Board of Aldermen and Acting Mayor. More credible was this straight political reasoning: Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley, national and State chairman of the Democracy, was out with his Bronx ally, New York's Secretary of State Edward Joseph Flynn, to crush Tammany and bring New York City into President Roosevelt's political dominion through Mr. Flynn's longtime protege McKee. Mr. McKee's hesitancy before he finally decided to run was attributed by his friends...
...Holy Joe" McKee tried hard to renounce ALL party affiliations, including his connection with his next-door neighbor, Bronx Boss Flynn. He had previously told reporters that if they saw him on the 29th floor of the Lincoln Building, he would not be going to see Flynn but to rest in another friend's neighboring office. He promised to reduce the budget "by instituting real economies," abolish duplicating departments in the city government by having the charter revised, unify the subway system to provide an honest 5? fare. Explaining the formation of his independent party, he said: "I would...
...Jewish following is strong in McKee's Bronx. "I call on you," he wired LaGuardia, "to disavow it unequivocally and without reservation...
...James Aloysius Parley, the Democracy's New York State as well as national chairman, had spent two days in the city prior to Mr. McKee's fateful announcement. He had been closeted with Edward Joseph Flynn, New York's Secretary of State, Democratic ruler of The Bronx, Mr. McKee's next door neighbor and political mentor and the sole wedge by which the Farley-Roosevelt State machine might dislodge Tammany from control of the city. The night before Mr. McKee declared himself, reporters found little pucker-faced Louis McHenry Howe, the President's Confidential secretary...